Five Little Speckled Frogs

Music
Singing and performing helps to build children's confidence and self-esteem, it's also FUN!
Perform the song to an audience demonstrating an understanding of the words and actions appropriate to the song. Choose five children to perform the song.
View the video song of "Five Little Speckled Frogs." Compare the performances.

Dance
Build up a movement vocabulary for a frog e.g. bouncy, hopping, snapping, swimming etc.
Within their own 'space bubble' children can move around like a frog. Teacher can play a sound source e.g. tap the desk with a ruler, clap hands or shake a maracas. When the teacher stops the sound source the children freeze, when the teacher plays the sound source again the children choose another frog movement.

Science
What is the habitat of a frog?

Literacy
Sing and read along to the YouTube song to achieve multi-sensory learning "Do it, see it and hear it!"

Print out the song PDF
Read the song lyrics - ask children a variety of questions.
Re-read the song lyrics and ask children to join in.
Recognise and use a variety of punctuation when reading. " " ! ? . ,
Look at print and conventions (bold, italics).
Talk about interesting/challenging words and discuss what they mean.
Word study - phonic knowledge, compound words, rhyming word, contractions etc.